* Guy Waterman; Wrote on Wilderness, Mountains

Guy Waterman, 67, an outdoor writer whose books included “Wilderness Ethics.” Born in New Haven, Conn., and educated at George Washington University, Waterman worked his way through college as a jazz pianist. He spent the 1950s in Washington, D.C., working for the Chamber of Commerce and the U.S. Senate as an economist and legislative assistant. Waterman moved to New York City in 1961 and worked another decade as a speech writer for General Electric Co., also contributing speeches to three U.S. presidents. In 1973, Waterman moved with his second wife and co-writer, Laura Johnson Waterman, to East Corinth, Vt., to live on a 40-acre farm where they grew their own food, chopped their own firewood and made their own maple syrup without electricity, plumbing or central heating. Together they wrote the books “Backwoods Ethics: Environmental Concerns for Hikers and Campers” and “Wilderness Ethics” and had worked on “A History of Mountain Climbing in the Northeast.” Waterman also co-wrote “Woods Trails,” a monthly column in New England Outdoors, and contributed articles to various outdoor magazines. Despite losing two of his three sons in fatal mountain-climbing accidents, Waterman climbed all 48 of New Hampshire’s peaks higher than 4,000 feet in the winter and from all four points of the compass, according to a friend. Found on Friday after committing suicide near the summit of Mt. Lafayette in New Hampshire.